[woodman08]

I wanted a bird for a book case shelf and decided to machine one out ,but no matter what feed rates I picked I could get this bird done in less than
4 hrs.
I feel the cost of this bird it would never sell ,i always like to look at what things cost to build,this would be better carved out by hand.
Mind you i could have changed the step over on the finish cut, i used 8%
Even though it was quite a block of wood


machined out a house bird for display - YouTube house bird

[grubscrew]

Good looking project!
Just a suggestion but it looks like your loosing a good chunk of machine time in your rough cut by clearing the entire square around the bird. I would draw a profile around the bird say .5" wider, and only clear that area in the rough cut. The bit your running for the finish pass is quite long so no real need that i can see to clear the whole area (the square). Hope that helps!

[woodman08]

Yes i understand what you're saying, alot of material was machined away and if there was just .5 around the bird it would be a lot less cnc time
thanks